{"id":338500,"date":"2025-10-23T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338500"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:57:57","slug":"irans-regime-escalates-executions-in-a-desperate-bid-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-regime-escalates-executions-in-a-desperate-bid-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Regime Escalates Executions in a Desperate Bid for Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran faces an unprecedented wave of executions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The clerical regime in Iran is escalating the rate of executions daily, a clear political maneuver rooted in a bid for survival. From its inception, the regime established a machinery of death and suppression, initially attempting to justify its actions by claiming to target individuals involved in heinous crimes such as drug trafficking, murder, and rape.<\/p>\n

The grim reality, however, is that the regime itself is the primary perpetrator of violence against the Iranian people, particularly during national uprisings. Furthermore, its own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)<\/a> controls vast drug trafficking networks, and acts of sexual violence are committed by its torturers against youth in the regime\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n

Crucially, a huge part of those executed by the criminal clerics over the past 47 years have been political and ideological prisoners. The official statistics on these executions are consistently proven to be severely underreported.<\/p>\n

Fearful of its current disastrous economic and social conditions, and terrified of potential uprisings, the regime employs executions to sow despair and terror, especially among Iran\u2019s youth. As the mullahs face collapse, this campaign of terror serves as a form of psychological security for the regime, seeking to avenge its continuous setbacks across all fronts by targeting highly resilient political prisoners.<\/p>\n

These executions\u2014whether carried out in secret black sites, the country’s notorious prisons, or in public\u2014are conducted under barbaric, medieval conditions. In most cases, they follow prolonged solitary confinement, severe torture, and are carried out after the condemned have already served extensive periods of their sentence, all while enduring immense physical and psychological pressure. This grotesque practice is a deliberate, inexplicable effort by the clerics to systematically crush human dignity.<\/p>\n

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NCRI Editorial: #Iran<\/a>\u2019s Reign of Executions, Erased Graves, and a Regime in Fearhttps:\/\/t.co\/VCQ005wbuh<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n